• 1. Design is where impact is decided: the materials specified, the way patterns use the fabric width and the number of physical samples produced are locked in before anything is manufactured.
  • 2. The modelling paradigm is a manufacturing decision: NURBS surfaces, parametric solids, meshes and garment simulation describe geometry in incompatible ways, and translating between them is a one-way, lossy step that has to be planned.
  • 3. Parametric design replaces the object with the system that generates it: material is placed only where it is structurally needed, and a single well-built model adapts to sizes, materials and production methods.
  • 4. Generative AI expands the concept space upstream, it does not produce the file downstream: a photorealistic image can conceal construction and material impossibilities, so every output is a hypothesis to be tested against feasibility and circularity.
  • 5. Zero-waste pattern making is an industrial strategy rather than a craft revival: digital marker making, nesting and simulation make full-width interlocking layouts viable at production scale.
  • 6. Authorship and intellectual property of AI-generated outputs remain unsettled: document the prompt workflow now, while it is still a working practice and not yet a compliance question.
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